Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 13, 2016
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962  
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
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Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)  
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
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William Baziotes  
I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012  

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